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On the bleak, storm-tossed southern tip of South America, a lonely lighthouse guards the world's most treacherous, and lucrative, shipping lane. However, beyond the forces of nature, the lighthouse keepers must also face an even more formidable foe, and soon the turbulent waters become the bloody battleground of two men who fight for control of the cruel Cape Horn and the pleasures of a helpless, shipwrecked beauty.
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As World War II rages on, the Germans open Stalag Luft III, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp, designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history. Together, under the guidance of the brilliant Bartlett the resourceful Hendley, and the steely, determined Hilts, the men plot, scheme, and dig their way to freedom at any cost!
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Fighting caravans: Clint Belmet convinces French-born Felice into posing as his wife to help him evade a misdemeanor jail term. Clint joins a wagon train heading for California, taking Felice with him, and begins to fall in love with the girl.
A farewell to arms: An American officer in the Italian ambulance corps falls in love with an English Red Cross nurse.
Meet John Doe: A genial homeless unemployed baseball pitcher is hoaxed into protesting...
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"Rich Richardson is a hard-driving, dedicated submarine officer with a single-minded purpose -- to seek out and smash the Japanese destroyer he believes sunk his former ship. Given a new command, Richardson drills his men and first officer Jim Bledsoe to point of mutiny as he relentlessly trains them for the battle ahead. At last, word comes of the destroyer's position, and disobeying orders, Richardson finally confronts his foe, unaware that an even...
7) Lifeboat
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When their vessel is torpedoed in the Atlantic Ocean during WWII, eight survivors find refuge in a lifeboat. Short on food and water, their situation is further complicated when they rescue a crew member from the German submarine that sank their ship.
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American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
9) Wake Island
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Based on the incredible true story of a handful of U.S. Marines holding out against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault.
10) Red Ball Express
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"During the height of the war, Patton's Third Army is in desperate need of supplies after a successful invasion of Paris. An elite military truck force is established to deliver the goods to the soldiers. Members of this platoon must not only withstand minefields and Nazi resistance, they must also learn to overcome their personal and racial prejudices towards one another."
11) Hannibal Brooks
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A British POW working at a zoo in Germany attempts an escape over the Swiss Alps with his charge, a full grown elephant!
12) The rover
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After a wide-ranging life of piracy and adventure, Peyrol comes ashore in the port of Toulon during the bloody aftermath of the French Revolution to deliver a message to the Port Commander. Wanted by authorities in nearly every port in the European world, Peyrol barely escapes arrest and flees to an isolated spot near the coast. While searching for a way to return to the open sea, he rescues a deranged girl, Arlette from a mob of revolutionary "blood-drinkers."...
13) Coming home
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A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.
14) The train
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In August 1944, the Allied army is closing in on Paris. German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim steals a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. When a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche, a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost.
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During the Japanese invasion of Burma in 1942, a troop of British soldiers on a jungle mission lose radio contact with their base, and then clash over how to proceed. When a Japanese scout wanders into their camp and they take him prisoner, tensions increase further as the soldiers become so concerned with arguing out their own destinies, the enemy has to take second place.
16) The purple plain
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After his wife is killed during the Blitz, neurotic and suicidal Squadron Leader Bill Forrester (Gregory Peck) is bent on achieving one thing in the war: his own death. Fellow airmen see him as hostile, uncommunicative and prone to nightmares and anxiety attacks. But when Forrester's plane crash-lands in enemy territory, he realizes that he must save himself in order to guide his two injured companions to safety. As they cross the Burmese desert,...
17) Beach red
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Young marines on a WWII tour of duty learn that 'war is hell' in this graphic, unflinching and honest drama of men in combat. The movie marked a real breakthrough in American war picture production by taking pains to show the terror on both sides. After a gory battle to take the beach on a Japanese-held island in the Pacific, Captain MacDonald asks Sergeant Honeywell to lead a squad on a perilous journey deep into the jungle to find the enemy's stronghold....
18) Beau Geste
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When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the brothers must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny and defend a desert fortress against a brutal enemy.
19) To hell and back
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The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. Based on the autobiography of Audie Murphy, who stars as himself in the film.
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Robert Shaw and Harrison Ford star as fearless commandos on a deadly mission in the darkest days of World War II. Hitler₂s armies are storming through Europe, annihilating all opposition in their path, but U.S. Colonel Barnsby plots to strike a crippling blow to the brutal Nazi forces. To succeed, he₂ll need the help of the most skilled and lethal soldiers in the world: the squad led by Captain Mallory and explosives specialist Corporal Miller,...
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